
Progressive shots showing the making of a tea cosy for the Belfast a show of tea cosies at the Ulster Museum and Art gallery, Belfast

tea pot prepared for paper mache moulding with plasticine to ensure the paper mache could be freed from the pot and tape to mark where the cosy could split to open

‘Raising’ the paper mache

Developing the upper half including the ‘tongues’

ready for painting

completed cosy with clasps to hold top to bottom

detail showing tongue stud